Michael Lemay

Global Pandemic Threats

A Reference Handbook

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an accessible reference on epidemic and pandemic diseases that provides background information and history, explains why pandemics are a newly emerging threat, identifies the difficulties in coping with them, and provides hope in the form of modern medicine. Global Pandemic Threats: A Reference Handbook provides all-encompassing coverage that introduces key concepts and traces the history of pandemics, enabling readers to grasp the complexity of the global problem and the difficulties of executing effective solutions. Written in an easy-to-understand manner, it provides a "go-to" resource that systematically addresses dozens of diseases of the past as well as re-emergent or newly emerging pathogens that have the potential of becoming pandemics. The book's extensive coverage of past pandemics includes bubonic plague, cholera, influenza, measles, smallpox, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, and yellow fever, and the re-emergence of malaria, measles, pertussis (whooping cough), poliomyelitis, and other contagious diseases. It discusses a broad range of newly emerging viral threats, such as AIDS/HIV, avian flu, anthrax, botulism, Ebola, E. coli, Gulf War syndrome, hanta virus, Lassa virus, Lyme disease, Marburg virus, MERS, MRSA, Ricin, Sin Nombre virus (SNV), and West Nile virus. The work offers perspectives from individuals interested and involved in the fight, including medical professionals and health care workers; profiles of key organizations and persons; a helpful timeline of past and present pandemic outbreaks; and a glossary of key terms and concepts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: ABC-CLIO
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 711g
• ISBN-13: 9781440842825
• ISBN-10: 1440842825
• Artikelnr.: 44890028

Autorenporträt

Michael C. LeMay

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1 Background and History
Introduction
Notable Epidemic/Pandemic Diseases of the Past
Yellow Fever
Smallpox
Cholera
Plague
Influenza
Trachoma
Germ Theory and Medical Science Developments to Cope with Pandemics
The Pandemics of the 20th Century
Conclusion
References
2 Problems
Controversies
and Solutions
Introduction
Problems
The Inevitability of a Future Pandemic
Political Exigencies Tend to Trump Medical Advice
While Preventive Medicine is Best
It Is Too Often Ignored
Mission Complexity Hampers Effective Response
As Man Adapts to Nature
Nature Adapts to Man
Humankind Is Its Own Enemy
The Special Threat of Bioterrorism
The Need for an Early Warning System in a Complex
Interconnected World
Establishing International Cooperation to Face a Global Threat
The Need for Elaborate International and National Planning
Controversies
The Antivaccination Movement
Primitive Health Care in Developing Countries
Large-Scale Urbanization Spreads Disease
Extreme Poverty in the Developing World
Returning Health-Care Workers
The Need for Clinical Trial Speedups
The Demand for Protective Clothing
Economic Impacts of Pandemics
The Need for Pandemic Preparedness
How Strong Should the Powers of the WHO Be?
Solutions
Conclusion
References
3 Perspectives
Introduction
Perspectives on HIV/AIDS Pandemic in the United States
South Africa
and Sri Lanka: Liesl Nydegger
"Quick Response" Deployment Assists Ebola Crisis Humanitarian Mission: As told to the author by Staff Sergeant Jose Marquez and Specialist Rion McWilliams
U.S. Army
Fighting Measles at the Grassroots Level: Lions Clubs International Foundation
Samaritan's Purse International Relief Medical Responses: Haiti
Philippines
and Ebola: Bev Kauffeldt
Linda M. Mobula
and Lance Plyler
Dengue Fever: Amanda Naprawa
Vaccines Are the Key to Preventing Global Disease Pandemics: Angela Quinn
How to End a Disease: The Global Polio Eradication Initiative: John Hewko
Air Travel and Aedes Mosquito-borne Diseases: Sahotra Sarkar
4 Profiles
People
Anthony Banbury (1964- )
Emil von Behring (1854-1917)
Seth Berkley (1956- )
Kent Brantly
Larry Brilliant
John S. Brownstein
Donald S. Burke
Albert Calmette (1863-1933)
Ernst Chain (1906-1979)
Margaret Chan
Nancy Cox
Grace Eldering (1900-1988)
John Franklin Enders (1897-1985)
Paul Farmer (1959- )
Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)
Howard Florey (1898-1968)
Tom Frieden (1960- )
Keiji Fukuda
William Crawford Gorgas (1854-1920)
Lawrence Gostin
Camille Guerin (1872-1961)
Alan Hay
David K. Henderson
Donald A. Henderson (1928- )
Maurice Hilleman (1919-2005)
Edward Jenner (1749-1823)
Pearl Kendrick (1890-1980)
Kamran Khan
Ron Klain (1961- )
Robert Koch (1843-1910)
Joseph Lister (1827-1912)
Vivek H. Murthy
Michael Osterholm
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)
Peter Piot (1949- )
Ludwick Rajchman (1881-1965)
Walter Reed (1851-1902)
Frederick C. Robbins (1916-2003)
Frederick F. Russell (1870-1960)
Albert Sabin (1906-1993)
Jonas Salk (1915-1995)
Sahotra Sarkar (1962- )
Jeffrey Shaman
George Miller Sternberg (1838-1915)
Jeffrey Taubenberger (1961- )
Benjamin Waterhouse (1754-1846)
Thomas H. Weller (1915-2008)
Nathan Wolfe
Michael Worobey
Almroth Edward Wright (1861-1947)
Raymond Zilinskas
Organizations
Agency for International Development (AID)
Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
American Association for the History of Medicine
American Medical Association
American Public Health Association
Association for Preventive Teaching and Research (APTR)
Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (Canada)
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Buffett Foundation
Center for AIDS Intervention Research
Center for Biologics Evaluative Research
Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies
Center for Emerging Zoonotic and Infectious Diseases (at the CDC)
Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
Center for Research on Influenza Pathogens (CRIP)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Centers for Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (CEIRS at NIAID)
Commissioned Corps Readiness Force
Eco Health Alliance
Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS)
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Global
Global Viral
Health Alert Network
International Red Cross
Lions Clubs International
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International
Metabiota
Metropolitan Medical Response System
National Communicable Disease Center
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
National Institutes of Health
National Pharmaceutical Stockpile (NPS)
New York Influenza Center of Excellence (NYICE)
Orthopoxvirus Genomic and Bioinformatics Resource Center
Partners in Health
Rockefeller Foundation
Rotary International (PolioPlus)
Samaritan's Purse
Skoll Global Threats Fund
Society for General Microbiology
State Center of Virology and Technology
UN Educational
Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)
UN International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)
UN World Health Organization (WHO)
United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
Wellcome Trust
World Federation of Public Health Associations
5 Data and Documents
Data
Table 5.1: Timetable of the 2014 Ebola Pandemic
Table 5.2: The Nine Deadliest Viruses
Table 5.3: Chronology of U.S. Legislation Regarding USMHS/PHS
Table 5.4: An Overview of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic
Table 5.5: Ebola Outbreaks in West Africa
Table 5.6: Major Epidemics in U.S. History
Table 5.7: Quarantinable Diseases by Executive Order
Table 5.8: Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers and Antibiotic Resistance
Table 5.9: Surgeon Generals of the United States Public Health Service
Table 5.10: Emerging Pathogens Worldwide
1930 to Present
Table 5.11: Critical Pathogen Agents
Table 5.12: Timeline of the Pioneers of Vaccines
Map 5.1: Zika Outbreak
2015-2016
Figure 5.1 Ebola
Figure 5.2 The 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Figure 5.3 The Scope and Impact of HIV/AIDS in the United States
Figure 5.4 World Prevalence of Tuberculosis
Documents
Letter from Lady Montagu Regarding Inoculation against Smallpox (1717)
Arguments over a Smallpox Vaccine (1722)
Newspaper Article on a Smallpox Outbreak in New York City (1731)
The Scourge of Yellow Fever
Philadelphia (1793)
Winfield Scott on the Cholera Epidemic during the Black Hawk War (1832)
Raphael Semmes's Account of an Epidemic aboard Ship during the Mexican War (1851)
Massachusetts Law Requiring Vaccination of School Children (1855)
Act of March 3
1891
Allowing Medical Exams by the USMHS
Walter Reed and the Eradication of Yellow Fever
Excerpts from Jacobson v. Massachusetts (1905)
Excerpts from Clara Barton's Article on Yellow Fever in Cuba (1912)
Charter of the World Health Organization (1946)
The WHO's Global Immunization Vision and Strategy Program (2006)
6 Resources
Introduction
Selected Print Resources
Books
Scholarly Journals
Nonprint Sources
Films
Videos
7 Chronology
Glossary
Index
About the Author